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I'm told by my professor a story: He got a scolarship to Utrecht, Netherlands. He went there with clothing normally for hot season, thinking that it's summer in Netherlands. After he landed on Amsterdam Airport, it turns out the temperature to be 12 degree celsius. He then quickly wore a jacket. He ...

jal wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 2:33 am

Xwtek wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:29 amAnimated png makes the picture harder to read

There is no such thing as an an animated png.

My bad, I used the wrong word for that. It should be animated gif.

masako wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 11:03 am

Animated png makes the picture harder to read

Nevertheless, it's amusing that people's approach to language hasn't changed. Today, people still claim to speak languages better than native speakers because they don't understand dialect and variety. It reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/dJgoTcyrFZ4?t=128 I'm not saying I have a perfect a...

I find Navajo language very cool and local people should revitalize it... even though I speak another (somewhat) endangered language (Javanese) that I should've been immersed in. Yes, I'm a hypocrite.

I heard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0SGm2dA2_g&t=154s

Warlpiri language is extraordinarily verbose and quickly spoken.

Can anyone port it to Linux?

EastOfEden wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:00 am Change of [ø] to a back rounded vowel?

Who asks this?

Is it realistic with this sound change. The notation is: S is stressed syllable and s is unstressed syllable, then the unstressed syllable in SsS word doesn't get reduced but the first unstressed syllable in SssS vowel gets reduced? So the language tries as far as possible to have exactly one unstre...

Pharyngeal sound usually either lowers the vowel, lengthen the vowel, and (paradoxially) fronten the vowel. Then it's usually deleted or turned into glottals. Just to clarify, are you responding to my first or second question here? Second. I don't know about the answer of the first question. But I ...

Pharyngeal sound usually either lowers the vowel, lengthen the vowel, and (paradoxially) fronten the vowel. Then it's usually deleted or turned into glottals. Note that pharyngeal sound doesn't necessarily pattern with phyaryngealized consonant. In Arabic, /a/ next to pharyngeal consonant is /æ/, bu...

Vijay wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:56 am I don't know of anyone in a Spanish-speaking country named "Andreas," though.

Well, I just type something on google translate.

since language names in their native environment are often underspecified like that Except that it's not. Indonesia is an area where bilingualism is widespread. Indonesian is actually a minority for L1 speakers (Most Indonesian speakers are L2, though). Javanese has the most L1 speaker in Indonesia...

It's completely broken, though if I try to use Indonesian text on it. Halo, nama saya Andreas. Saya adalah murid kelas 5 SD Mahardika Bandung. Ang nabarap-kapangkat wa aba hereng di nasa kopinda ang dapat tama kaya ang kandidato at penkata. Kinabuha saad walang pekeng gumawa kami. Alam rin nang, sag...

How do you pronounce "is it" in "what time is it". Because I'm pretty sure that "it" is a clitic. But according to this video, it is wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CktAc3ufVP4

I wonder how do you pronounce Tabes (from We Bare Bears). I pronounce it [tʰeɪbz], but I can't resist pronouncing it [ta.bes] as it doesn't look like English name at all.

I have a question. What is the difference between dental consonant and alveolar consonant by formant?

But, Papuan Malay creator, please at least learn some Malay grammar first. This is literally the opposite of how every creole ever works. The problem is the possessive construction in Papuan Malay. Apparently Papuan Malay uses "Possessor Possessee" syntax, sometimes without divider. The p...

-velar vs. uvular plosives: [k]-[q], [g]-[ɢ], [x]-[X] and [ɣ]-[ʁ]. I can pronounce the velars more back in my throat but they doesn't sound very different. Also, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart if I hear them in speech. Maybe I'm just not used to this distinction yet, idk. for uvular, use the...

How about a textbook about calculus.